Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

The person who walks the way of spiritual awareness is guided by his own interior images and understands that he has to accept blame without letting it paralyze him. The one thing he must avoid, at all costs, is lukewarm living. The lukewarm person thinks that remaining outside life, repressing, saying NO, running away from life’s conflicts is always best. Wrong! Only by entering into life’s fray, by completing life’s journey, by confronting everything he...

Since 1986 I have written books on psycho-spirituality (more than 30 published in Italy by Ed.Paoline)…but even though sales have been good (according to the publisher), the books haven’t enjoyed a wide readership. And I’ve come to understand over the years that that’s probably as it should be. The spirituality that I focus on is, in part, mysterious. Its mystery is not meant to scare away the general public, but the mystery itself is such that not...

I never know how to answer the one who asks me how to live life, since each person has to find his or her own way. For me, as you know, the main thing is to allow yourself to be loved by God, then peace of heart, prayer, silence, time alone, contact with nature, and finally, healthy food and long walks. All this in order to move steadily toward an ever deeper awareness and understanding of oneself and the world so that we can complete the tasks God has assigned each of us...

The man of today, no longer used to living straight through the principal phases of his life (birth, adolescence, young-, early- and late-adulthood, old age, and death), and even confusing them, prolonging them, and denying them, loses his inner equilibrium and lives a fragmented, fearful, and confused existence and in a permanent state of emotional stress. If he doesn’t move, step by step, through the main phases of his life, if he skips or denies them, it’s...

In autumn, darkness predominates over light, and the nights are longer than the days. Nevertheless, it’s an important and fascinating time of year: a time to take away, rather than a time to add to – a time to cut off dry branches and only hold on to what’s essential. While the light outside diminishes, the interior light grows brighter, in order to bring about, in the silent dark, a new conception. I have always paid more attention to conception rather...